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Every few months Column Five shuts down for an office-wide Hack Day. It’s a great time to brainstorm new ideas, mix up the daily grind and experiment with new creative work. Now, they’re proud to share one of the projects hatched up at their last Hack Day. Introducing C5’s very first video game, Groove Glider.

Each Tuesday we like to give you a creative tip to help you mix up your routine, try something new, and glean fresh inspiration. This week’s tip: Kill your ego to save your creativity.

Ego. It isn’t all bad. But it’s too easy to get wrapped up in your own self, convinced you are smarter, more talented, and more deserving of recognition than those around you. Unfortunately, those beliefs can get in the way of just about everything in life: your relationships, your work, your own creativity and ability to evolve. Hence, a regular ego check is important. Think you have a handle on yours? Think again. Here are five tips to challenge your ego.

This week’s #BrandCrush is a seriously different kind of company – they sell toilet paper through the mail. Getting TP delivered to your front door hasn’t exactly gone mainstream (even though there are plenty of options on Amazon), but an Australian company has a business model that’s giving plenty of reasons to do it.

Creative blocks are no joke, whether you’re a writer, designer, artist, photographer—whatever. Faced with a blank page or fresh project, it’s easy to get stuck. But take heart, even the most successful creatives struggle to start at times. How do they overcome? Where do they find inspiration? Here are reflections from 5 famous creatives on the creative process.

While getting (admittedly) sloppy on a team building night out, someone at UK t-shirt printing service Printsome asked an intriguing question: what would a beer made by Facebook taste like? While nobody can seem to remember who came up with the idea, the team took that alcohol inspired concept in a design direction, exploring how the image of Facebook and other major non-food brands would translate if they made beer. So far they’ve created 17 ‘Beertualising’ labels, complete with slogans, and a little outline of the ingredients that make each beer.

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While the cost of production decreases, often the quality doesn’t increase as a result. To produce a TV commercial in the ‘60s, you would need a film with a crew on site just to switch out the reels on the cameras. Then the film would need to be developed, and before non-linear editing systems, film was manually spliced together.

We love a good #TBT, especially when it’s kinda funny, kinda weird, and kinda brilliant. And that’s exactly how we’d describe this vintage Band-Aid ad. The product has been around for almost a century, and we’ve seen just about every iteration of marketing for it: now with Neosporin! now in neon! But back in the day, the selling points were a little less sexy. In this particular commercial, they’re going for a simple feature: look how well it sticks!